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New Directions In Music

About the Substack

If music is your best friend, always there for you, in the best times and the worst times, if you turn on some music to start your day, and if you brake for rainbows, this is the place where I explore and celebrate music and the people who create it.

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About Marshall Bowden

My beat is music, culture, and history intertwined to tell stories about our favorite artists and the art that they create.

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